Matthew F Amati

MermaidensThe thing about mermaids is, they have a tail problem.It seems they either want to get rid of their tail so they can walk on land, Or they want to get their tail back, having somehow lost it so they could be on land.Or they fell in love with someone who doesn't have a tail...It never seems to end.All we know for sure is that it's a problem...And that there's always a tale. 19 Tales About Mermaids and Their Tails. Featuring stories by: Matthew F. Amati--Bridget Day--Read Gallo--Nick Clements--Brian MacDonald --Craig Crawford--S. R. Brandt --Jessica Guernsey--Ken Poyner--Alexandra Angeloch--Carolyn Ivy Stein--Barton Paul Levenson--Melody Bowles--Adrienne Wood--Julie McNeely-Kirwan--R.S. Nevil--Eve Morton--Lisa Trefsger--James Fitzsimmons--Edited by Sam Knight

For the Loompas who toil from birth to invariably gruesome death in the Wonka Candy Works, the massive Factory is the only world they know. After a grisly accident kills three of his colleagues, a case of mistaken identity sends Loompa Bill P. on a journey to William R. Wonka's inner circle, then to the toxic candy waste pits below the Factory, and ultimately to the forefront of a "Revoloomption." Loompaland unwraps a sticky confection of workers' rights, entrepreneur-worship, industrial food production, and the absurdities of unchecked corporate power. Gross candies roll off the lines, and the warning signs list all the fascinating ways a Loompa can be killed. Bill P and his fellow Loompas ricochet from triumph to disaster and back, in a novel that is fierce, funny, angry, and shot through with scenes of hilarity and terror.